LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1880.
Lancaster -EntelUgencet.
SATURDAY BVENING, DEC. 11, 1880.
The New l'erk Democracy.
The Democrats of New Yerk city,
after having defeated the party in the
nation, are finishing up their work by
taking the city from Democratic control.
If it suits them we de net knew that, we
need care te complain. We would be a
great deal better off if we had net,
during the past five years, given
any consideiatien at all te the
great Democratic majority in New
Yerk city. In view of its maguitude
the feeling in the party at large has been
that it needed te be conciliated ; and we
came sorely te grief in the effort. By
some Jehn Kelly is blamed for the Han
cock disaster, while ethers attribute the
result te Mr. Tilden The Republicans in
November were permitted te carry a
very heavily increased vote for their
electors and te come very nigh te electing
their mayor. The Republicans yester
day were deliberately given six out of the
eleven appointments made by Mayer
Coeier of Mr. Tilden s wing of the De
mocracy. That the coiibiiiatieu enteiei into by
Mayer Cooper and a portion of the Dem
ocratic aldermen with their Republican
associates, which had this result of put
ting the Republican party in power, was
altogether base and indefensible will net
be denied by any Democrat. The sole
object was te defeat Jehn Kelly and
Tammany hall ; but te de it a Republi
can alliance was accepted and the Re
publican party was strengthened.
The many Democrats in the nation
who have been induced te believe that
Tammany hail defeated General Han
cock, because they thought that Tam
many hall controlled the politics of the
Democratic city thai caused the disas
ter, will see most excellent reason in
these disreputable proceedings te revise
their opinion and te believe that the
Democratic element new showing in
this base alliance with the Republicans,
may have been the Judas in November.
Certainly they can be in no doubt as te
who new is responsible for the weakening
of the Democracy and the strengthening
of the Republican party of New Yerk
city. One of the anti-Tammany
uldernit'ii, who was net ready
te let his opposition te that or
ganization carry him into the arms
of the Republicans, and who refused te
join the base coalition, thus spoke in the
Iteard of aldermen when the dirty work
was beimr done. Alderman Ilaughten
said :
44 Mi:. Pki:mient : It is new two years
since I was elected a member of this beard.
I have 'tried te sustain the policy and the
nominees of Mayer Cooper. It lias been
pretty tough weik sometimes, but T did
the bc.-t I could. Cooper seemed te give
mere patronage te the Republicans than
te the Democratic paity, of which he pro
fessed te be a member. While I will re
peat that I honestly sustained Mr. Cooper
in bin political policy during all this time,
and thought him a man of honor and in
tegrity, I must say te-day that I cannot
entertain that opinion any longer. The
nominations we are asked te vote for te
day will se intrench the Republicans that
there is only one result te be looked for.
Yeu will make this a Republican ring city
like that el Philadelphia. If it is a victory
te-day for my anti-Tammany Democratic
colleagues, tliey will find it is net a victory
in a sheit while from new. It is all right
for the Republican end of the string. Be
careful. I charge Mayer Cooper .with ac
tually cnlciing into a corrupt bargain, for
wc have the evidence here te-day."
That places the matter distinctly be
fore the Democracy of the country for
their judgment, and there can be but one
opinion upon it. These who have blamed
Kelly must agree with these who
have condemned Tilden for the lack of
harmony in the Democratic party in
New Yerk and the selfishness and treach
ery that have cost us all se dear. While
It may be safe te say that neither side is
blamelesr., the responsibility for the
present trouble is plainly fixed, audit
rests upon the anti-Tammany Demo
crats, if indeed they can be called Dem
ocrats. Meanwhile the Republicans enjoy the
chestnuts. It is the biggest feast they
have had. though they have been very
lucky through Democratic dissensions in
getting a portion of the city offices every
year. They have geed cause for exulta
tion ever the successful result of a ceali.
thin which profits them much, and costs
them nothing.
Skxatei: Bayakii, in a speech net
long age, said that Senater Conkling,
Collector Arthur, District Attorney
Neah Davis, .Secretary of the Treasury
Beut well, and Jayne, the informer, had
been present at the New Yerk custom
house when the senior partner of Phelps,
Dedge & Ce., who was president of
the Chamber of Commerce, a mem
ber of the Union League, an
exalted church member, and a
giver of Sj,0(H te President Grant
had been compelled te pay out $270,000
en account of his frauds en the revenue,
and that the money had been divided
between the assembled inquisitors.
Te-dnv Conkling, Boutwell, Davis
and Arthur appear with a
letter in the Philadelphia
and s-ay that iJie statement
true. Of eeunw evmene will
joint
Press
is net
await
Mr. Bayard's answer before 'believing
them ; and it is safe te say that his word
will net. le outweighed by that of thfi
four. Possibly there is some misappre
hension as te what Senater Bayard
staled: and these people are entitled te
the benefit of that supposition for the
present.
What a stinging rebuke the Rev. Dr.
Leenard Woolsey Bacen gives te the un
easy spirits agitating life senaterships
for ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents !
Hew completely he diews that a man
who has been exalted in this free repub
lic can, with the serenest dignity, resume
a private place in society without any
derogation of himself or the office he has
held ! What an exemplification of the
splendid republican simplicity of our free
institutions that no citizen worthy te
held high place under them need
suffer by honorable retirement therefrem
back te the rank of citizen equal te
president in all that makes an Ameri
can citizen. When any one shall
have filled IhtA; hijjii trusts with shame
te himself and discredit te his country :
when he shall have consorted With pufc
lic thieves and shall have been the tool
of plunderers ; when his administration
was a cess-peel of corruption for such
an one the private station maybe a posi
tion of unrest. But in the exaltation of
such an one anew there is no geed te the
government and no honor te the people.
Kcglna Dal CIn.
The eloquent story of Regina Dal Cin
which we print en our first page te-day
is as useful as it is interesting. It is true.
Leng before she came te this country the
fame of this wonderful Italian woman
was established in her own hand and
throughout the continent. Many Amer
icans had visited her and tested her skill
with satisfactory results-, and of all the
witness borne te her sincerity and al
most inspired surgical skill none is mere
intelligent and authoritative than that
of our own townswoman upon whose
recommendation we print the narrative,
te the perusal and study of which we in
vite every reader's attention. The story
of this peasant woman's life and labors,
her persecution and triumph, is mere in
teresting than any fiction we wet of. She
is a marvel of original genius well direct
ed, of obstacles overcome and of merit
finally recognized and fitly rewarded.
But she is most useful in illustrating the
perversity of medical science if medi
cine is a science in refusing te hear te
new discoveries or te need fresh inspira
tions unless they come in the " regular"'
way. There is a great deal of "pow "pew
vow"and humbug in medicine; much
of it among their regular practitioners
and net a little among the pride of the
schools. It takes great vigilance in the
profession te keep the public from being
victimized by quacks. In their zeal te
protect Hieir patients from being dosed
and drugged, and butchered in an
" irregular" way, the " regulars" may
be excused for the exercise of a little
countervailing humbug, and their phi
lanthropy may sometimes pardon their
stupidity. But for a profession that calls
itself liberal and which pretends te aim at
the relief of men's suffering, its t reat
ment of these who have claimed te have
new insights' into the healing art has
been sinzularlv discreditable te itself
and well calculated te make people cred
uleus of the quacks and distrustful et
the regulars. The story of Regina Dal
Cin's persecutions is the story of Jenner
and Harvey; and who knows hew much
mere valuable discoveries have been
hidden by the rebuff which their dis
coveries met from the schools. The
gre;;te.it charlatanry in any human
science is that which assumes te a
knowledge of all that is knowable in its
branch, and which fails te recognize that
a beginning of all knowledge is the ap
preciation of hew much there is te learn.
Thk editor of the Lancaster Jnquirir
is determined te have a clear track for
Congress. He recommends Hen. A.
Ilerr Smith te Mr. Garfield for secretary
of the treasury -and B. F. Eshltman,
esq., for the ether cabinet position te
which Lancaster county is entitled.
MINOR TOPICS.
Nine per cent, of the Yale college grad
uates during the past ten years have be,
come clergymen.
At a recent hcatheu festival in India,
the offerings te the idol were valued at
$1,000,000. Pull up, Christians.
Russian translations of Banyan's Pil
grim's Progress" aud " Hely War," are
te be published shortly, with illustrations
of an English edition.
In Louisville, Ivy., the Northern and the
Southern Presbyteriaus joined en Thanks
giving Day, for the first time since the
war, in union services, which were pleas
ant and edifying.
Tiik Baptht Weellff lemaiks with con
siderable subtlety that the brethren who
have been able te at tend political meetings,
gaze at torchlight precessions and de con
siderablc shouting besides, cannot consist
ently plead the risks of night air as au ex
cuse for absence from prayer meetings.
Tub first peal of bslU ever hung in Hug
land was put up at Croyland Abby A. D."
9C0. Many years age it was estimated
that there were 2,262 peals of bells in Eng
land. The cathedral of Antwerp, cele
brated for its magnificent spire, has a peal
of 90 bells en which the most elaborate
music is played every half hour.
The Episcopalians of St. Leuis clubbed
together lately, hired a theatre for a week,
paid the manager the salary of the players,
selecting, of course, a moral play, stirred
up their friends te patronize the play, aud
at the close turned ever the profits te the
local charity for the sake of which this
new departure was made.
Tub elder Dr. Hedge, when writing te
Dr. Breadmau a letter of thanks for a
kind tribute, said': "Every man knows
that in his own heart, whatever ethers
may say of him, that he is ' a peer shetc.' "
Again he writes : "Jeb must have been in
a desperate state of inind when he scraped
his boils with potsherd, for I cannot
touch mine with a feather."
Tub church was warm, the minister was
dull, and everybody fell asleep except the
halfwitted man, Jamie Fleming. "My
brethren," shouted the indignant pastei,
"you should tike the example of that
foei there. He keeps awake." " Ay, ay,
minister," shouted Jamie; "but if I
hadn't been a feel I would hive been
asleep, like the ithers."
Brethren, read this and be wise : Min
ister (te Rory). " Why weren't you at tlip
kirk en Sunday ? " Rory. "I wis at Mr
Dunlop's kirk." Minister. "I don't like
your running about tae btrange kirks in
that way. Net that I object tan ycr hear
ing Mr. Dunlop ; but I'm shine e widna
like yer shecp straying away into strange
pastures." Rory. "I widnacaica gwiir
sir, if it was batter grcss."
The vacancy in the local Moravian pul
pit occasioned some lime since by the res
ignation and removal te Bethlehem of
Rev. C. B. Skultz, the former pastor, is
seen te be filled by Rev. J. Max Hark,
pastor of the Second Moravian church of
rhilaucipnia, wue is te ue installed in
charge of the deck in this city about the
first of January. The Meravians of Lan
caster have Jeng had a warm side for Mr.
Hark, and the success of their efforts te
secure his appointment is at this time es
pecially gratifying. A call extended a few
years age te this able young preacher was
for reasons deemed sufficient by the powers
that be net confirmed, but the present re
newal of the call, has, as the trustees of the
congregation have been informed by
Bishop de Schweinitz received the sanc
tion of the Provincial Elders' conference.
Mr. Hark is an accomplished pulpit orator,
whose intellectual power combined with
his known energy and popular manners
will be certain te enure te the benefit of
the Moravian congregation here.
PERSONAL.
Jenny Lind is fifty-nine years old.
Lord Beaconsfield was four years in
writing " Endymion."
Mr. Andrew D. White is visiting
Paris.
Jereme Bonaparte is about te publish
a newspaper under the probable title of
" Le Napeleon.''''
Dem Pedre, Emperor of Brazil, has
translated a number of Whittier's poems
into the Portuguese language.
Wendell Phillips celebrated his sixty
ninth birthday en Monday, November
29th,
The Prince of Wale! recently entered
upon his fortieth year. His mother is new
iu her sixty-second year and has reigned
forty-three years.
Mr. P. T. Barnum. the gret showman,
is sick in New Yerk, but, though very
weak, is net considered in immediate dan
ger. A. Bhensen Alcott began te keep a
diary when he was twelve years old, aud
haskcpt it up ever since. He learned te
write by practicing with chalk en his
mother's kitchen fleer.
Geu. Miles is reported te have said that
Sitting Bull is one of the best specimcus
of a crafty aud unrelenting savage he has
ever met ; a man who is cunning rather
than diplomatic.
Prof. W. A. M. DiLi.r.u, the well-known
organist of New Yerk, a frequent visitor
te this city and son of the late Rev. Dr.
Diller, who perished en the Seawauhaka.
iias died suddenly of apoplexy iu Elniira,
whither he removed only two weeks age.
Chas. E. Lelanu, of the Delavau Heuse
in Albany, N. Y., has been notified that
the subscriptions te build the "American
Palace Hetel," iu Londen, have been se
cured. He will take charge of the hotel
when it is completed in 1882.
"Mr. Tilden takes great interest in
farming at Grcystoue. The faim consists
of sixty-seven acres, well situated and
cultivated. The barns and stables aic
commodious. This fall Mr. Tilden has
gathered ever 2,000 bushels of apples from
his trees, and has planted eOO pear and
peach trees. He has also recetitly pur
chased a team of large farm horses iu the
West. They weigh fully 2,800 pounds.
Mr. Tilden is very enthusiastic about
Greystene and its agricultural products.
He does net seem te think of anything
but his farming. He very seldom reads a
paper. Sometimes he does net leek at
one for weeks." Se says his young man.
STATE ITEM3.
The Clarien Democrat is forty yeais old,
hut leeks as young and vigorous as ever.
Three mcmbeis of a Harrisburg firm
have been drawn as jurors te serve at the
same week of court.
" A Friend of the Newsboys" has coa
ts United 82,000 te the Philadelphia News
boys' Aid society.
Philadelphia can have a double celebra
tion in 1882 : the 200th auniversary cf the
landing of Penn and the 150th of the birth
of Washington.
The Norristown hospital commissioners,
by leaving 173,000 worth of their work
for the state te finish hereafter, have re
turned $10,000 te the state treasury.
The Democrats of the Sixth senatorial
district in Philadelphia have endorsed Dr.
S. Clark Frisby, independent colored can
didate against A. Wilsen Norris.
Mrs. Auna M. McCartney, a daughter of
Alderman Rese, of Altoeua. was terribly
burned en Thursday by her clothes taking
fire at the kitchen stove.
A traveling printer, who, for want of
employment at his trade, weut te work en
a Columbia county farm, came in one day
te ask his employee if a hen should be set
solid.
Officer Victer, of the Seventeenth dis
trict, Philadelphia while conducting a
prisonecr te the station house fell dead at
Twelfth and Bainbridge streets. Heart
disease, it is believed, was the cause.
Iu 1751, Reading which was then a ham
let and had but a couple of huudred in
habitants, was known as "Schwabc Shtct
tle," en account of the majority of citizens
being Swabians or " Schwepes." It then
belonged te Philadelphia county.
The register of wills admitted te pre
bate yesterday in Philadelphia, the con
tested will of James Burden, an engineer
en the steamboat Jehn A. Warner, who
left his estate, amounting te about $40,
000, te Captain Tyler, a friend, and Annie
E. Harris, colored, stewardess en the War
ner. Rev. J. Feareu Brown, member of the
Central Pennsylvania conference, has died
in Leck Haven of cancer of the liver, aged
49 years. He entered the ministry in 1859
with Revs. M. L. Smith, of the Martins
burg charge. W. A. Heuck, of Leck
Haven, and E. J. Gray, president of Dick Dick
ineon seminary.
All the anthracite coal mining interests
have agreed te a suspension of mining the
last three days of each week, commencing
the 19th instant and continuing through
December and January and if necessary
February. It is stated that this suspen
sion is necessary in order te "stiffen the
backbone of the coal market" and get bet
ter prices.
Mrs. Jennie Witz, the Johnstown woman
who eloped with David S. Sweney, a
painter, of Huntingdon, and was married
in Ilanisburg by an alderman, was releas
ed from the Dauphin ceuuty jail yesterday,
and left with her husband for Johnstown,
en the mail train west, in the afternoon.
Her infatuated lever, Sweney. is still inr-
jail, aud what disposition will be made of
him was net known last evening.
Obituary Notes.
The widow of Gen. E. V. S. umuer died
in Charlottesville, Virginia en Thursday,
The wau the mother of two sons in the
regular army, and of four daughters, all
married te army efflccis.
S. Prigg Campbell, stock broker of
Richmond, Virginia, and formerly busi
ness manager of the Richmond Enquirer,
died yesterday, aged 34 years. He was
born in Wheeliug, West Virginia, and
served during the war in the Confederate
army.
Oliver F. Winchester, hc:ul of the AVin
chester repeating arms company, died yes
terday in New Haven, Connecticut, aged
71 years. He was lieutenant coverner
of Connecticut in 1800, and was founder
of the Winchester conservatory at Yale.
A STINGING RE3UKE.
Concerning the Dignity or a lletired Pub
lic Ofllcer.
Leenard Woolsey Bacen, in New Yerk Inde
pendent. On the foregoing subject, which has oc
cupied the ingenious solicitude of se many
eminent contributors te the Independent,
it would net bs becoming in me te venture
with mere expressions of my own opinion.
But, having been personal witness of a
very emineut example, exactly bearing en
the question under consideration, I am
bold te believe that a statement of it may be
as well worth pondering as the arguments
and opinions even of the most illustrious
of your correspondents.
The church which it is my privilege te
serve iu the gospel has been most sensly
bereaved, within a few months, by the
death of beloved aud venerated members,
and notably by the death of La Fayette S.
Fester, who for the twelve most moment
eus years of American history was a
senator of the United States, and for a
part of the time was president of the
Senate, and after the death of President
Lincoln and the accession of Mr. Jehnsen
te tile presidency, succeeded te the chair of
vice president. Until the expiration of hi3
senatorial term he fulfilled the duties of
this high position with a dignity, a fine
courtesy and a commanding ability which
I have often heard spoken of by public
men, but never spoken of except with ad
miration. Tlie greatness of his public ser
vices during these memorable years is net
at all te be measured by his official station
or his public acts. Few men were mere
resorted te for private personal counsel by
Abraham Lincoln as. one after another,
or many at a time, the awful questions of
the war emerged than the upright, clear
headed, learned senator from Connecticut ,
aud in the hardly less stormy days of re
construction, when great measures were
pending, there was no place- where men
whose single anxiety was te de the best
thing for the whole ceuutry were mere apt
te find each ether in private conference
than at Senater Fester's apartment. His
was a senatorial career te which Connecti
cut citizens leek back with a sense of relief
and honorable pride from the double
shame which of recent years we have been
compelled te bear.
Frem the second position iu the repub
lic Mr.- Fester returned, in the ripe
strength of his manhood, te his home iu
Norwich and te the absolute level of pri
vate citizenship. Ne doubt that which is
alleged concerning the retiring presidents
is true in this case that his private busi
ness had suffered by his twelve years de
votion te public affairs. Certainly this
was true, that the compensations with
which some men manage te balance this
drawback were wholly absent m his ease.
There had been no salary grab in
his time, and, if there had been a
whisky ring, that made some senators rich
without visible disgrace, he was net in
it. He eainc back te his fellow-citizens,
as he went from amongst them, with
" clean hands and a pure heart," and re
sumed practice as a lawyer. Something
had been lest, no doubt, by the long
disuse of his profession something of fa
cility in practice, something of the "run
of business." But mero had been gained
in solidity of mind, in breadth of charac
ter, in a reputation wide as the continent ;
se that, if there would have been difficulty
in his taking at once just the same place
he had left, there was no difficulty at all in
his taking a place higher and mere honor
able. I de net say and wenld net care te
say mere lucrative.
These that best knew Mr. Fester aud the
needs of the public service grudged that
his large aud unselfish wisdom, ripened by
an experience se long and exceptional,
should be lest te the national councils ;
but it did net occur te them certainly it
did net te him that there was need of any
ether way of getting a desirable man into
the Senate besides that of electing him te
it. He thought it no dishonor, either te
himself or te the station he had filled, te
serve as a member of the lower house of
the Connecticut Legislature and te accept
the spsakcr'n chair of that imposing body.
Fer a few years, until retired by law, at
the age of seventy, he was judge of the
superior court of Connecticut, but retired
at once from the bench te the bar, of which
he was the ornament and pride.
It was iu these later years only that I
have known him well. That courtly, but
most genial gentleman, the recollections
of whose life were a thrilling chapter of
unwritten history, the wit and wisdom of
whose table-talk gave added charms te his
generous hospitality was, in point of civil
station, only a diligent and honorable at-terney-at-law.
One ether he held. He
was teacher of a Bible class in the Sunday
school of the Park church. This will,
doubtless, seem undignified te some of
your correspondents ; but there are few
figures in my memory that I recall with
mere reverence than that vigorous form,
scarcely beginning te droop under the
burden of years, and that "geed gray
head that all men knew," standing before
his class in animated discourse ou a chap
ter of the Werd of Ged, or in words of
singular grace and reverent beauty load lead
ing the prayers of our Thursday evening
meeting.
I have only one letter of Senater Fester's
and I am net sure that it will seem te the
public of sufficient importance te trans
cribe ; but it is a cherished possession with
me. It reads thus :
Sunday Noen, Oct. 27th, 1878.
Rev. and Dear Sir :
I put in my pocket this morning what
seemed te me sufficient for my contribu
tion te the cause of foreign missions ; but
after hearing your sermon I felt ashamed
it was se small. I dropped it into thc
basket, but a sense of shame at its meagre -ncss
haunts me still. It's a feeling I can't
harbor, and, by way of relief, I send yen
the enclosed. Should it please Ged that
the gift be a blessing te ethers, I hope te
te be duly grateful. I have the delightful
consciousness that it is, at least a blessing
te me.
With much respect and regard.
Your friend and parishioner,
L. F. S. Fester.
I have been in the habit, these two years
that I have been neighbor te Mr.Foster,ef
looking upon his diligent, fruitful, and
honerablo old age as presenting the very
type aud ideal of a worthy close te the
career of a great statesman aud public offi
cial iu a republic such as ours. I have
been glad that such an example should be
before the eyes of my sons ; and, when
visitors from the Old World have come te
see me, I have taken pride iu pointing te
the late acting vice-president of the
United States, taking the medest place
and work en an equality with all the rest
of us, as a noble and characteristic exam
ple of what is best in American republi
canism. I find new, from the reading of letters
from your distinguished contributors, that
this has been all a mistiko'en my part. I
learn, te my surprise, that these later
years of my beloved and venerated friend
were net " dignified," that two things
were lacking which are essential te the
dignity "of a man in his position. First
that he should be in the habit of draw
ing a let of unearned money every
year from the pablic treasury se that
he could five without honest and
useful work ; second, that some expedient
should be contrived by which he could
get into Congress wi.heut being elected.
It is a painful revelation this which your
collcge presidents and ether great Dens
have mad! te us as te what constitutes
dignity. I could wish that they had even
left us under our old illusion.
Norwich, Conn., Nev. 23th, 1SS0.
Henry Williams, his wife and child have
died since Sunday en a farm near Bryan.
Texas, from eating poisoned beef. Four
ethers arc sick from the same cause.
THE WALES DISASTER.
FOUR MES KKSCUED.
They are Taken front the Lewer Pit Their
Description or the Disaster,
Late iyesterday, at the scene of the
Rhondda valley colliery disaster in Wales,
the rescuing party began operations
Eighty-six men imprisoned in the upper
pit are beyond question dead. Four men
have been rescued from the lower pit.
One of these states that after hearing a
deadened report of the explosion at half
past one a. m., he and his mate noticed a
heavy depression iu the atmosphere.
Shortly afterward tens of rubbish fell
about them. They kept in stalls, taking
all possible precautions. After some hours
of anxious suspense they heard the voices
of the rescuing party aud were able te
convcrse a little with them. They
climbed ever the fallen rubbish- te where
the cage was and were hauled up unin
jured. He himself, however, wa3 par
tially insensible. He asserts that there
are ether men still alive in the lower pit.
Later.
The exploring party seen discovered six
teen corpse at the Penygraig mine. The
search was impeded by after-damp and
debris. Seven corpses were brought up
within twelve hours after the explosion.
One account states the explosion occurred
at forty minutes past one o'clock in the
morning. The damage was se great that
the explorers were notable te descend into
the mines for some hours. One shaft was
choked. Twenty-two bodies have been re
covered se far. and thirty-four mero have
been seen in the Penygraig pit.
Mining lINusler: In Seuth Wales.
Seuth Wales, iu which the Rhondda
valley disaster recorded above occurred,
is getting a fatal pre-eminence in colliery
disasters. Scarcely two years ' have
elapsed since the terrible explosion at
Abercarne, in which 3G5 out of the C87
people m the mine were killed. This dis
aster, one of the most terrible
en record, occurred en September 11,
1878, at Abercarne, near Newport,
in Monmeuthshire. The scene 8f
this explosion, however, was sonic distance
te the cast of the Rhondda valley. The
explosion in the same vicinity referred te
iu the despatches occurred en January 13,
1879, at the Dinas colliery, near Penty
pridd, in Glamerganshire, and 58 lives
were lest. A much mero serious disaster
than cither' occurred in the same vicinity
ou July 15, 185G, when 114 lives were lest
by an explosion iu the Cymmer colliery.
The inquest iu that case showed that
the plainest precautions had 'been dis
regarded, for a lighted candle had been
placed before a heading which was sup
posed te be dangerous, for the purpose of
testing the extent of the danger. Am even
mere fatal accident than this was the
explosion at Fcrndalc, Seuth Wales,
November 8, 1SC7, when 1G7 out of
men and boys perished ; and en June
en
170
10,
1869, the same pit blew up, killing 60 out
of 120 workers. The Rhondda valley,
where three disastrous explosions havenew
occurred, is densely populated, and the
excitemeut en these occasions is terrible te
witness.
TilEWGATUEU-
111 I3ect en Land and Sea.
Great freshets, causing serious damage
are reported in British Columbia. They
were followed an inccssaut rainfall of forty
hours, and carried off all the snow and ice
from the river valleys.
The body of James Macen,aged 59 years,
was found frozen stiff in the weeds, near
Fremley, New Jersey, yesterday morning.
Au area of high pressure moved down
from theerth te the lower Lake region
during Thursday night bringing with it
very cold weather. The temperature of
Parry bound, Ontario, yesterday morning
was 2d degrees below zero. At iJiuiingten,
Vermont, the temperature was 2 degrees
below zero. At Davenport, Iowa, it was 1
degree above zero. At LaCressc, Wis
consin, and Iudianopelis, Indiana, it was
at zero The temperature generally rose
throughout the Northwest, though net
high enough te get anywhere near the
freezing point. The cold wave descended
the valley of the Hudsen last night, the
temperature falling te zero at Poughkecp Peughkecp
sic. At Leng Branch, New Jersey, the
temperature was below zero bfere suurisc
yesterday. The Shrewsbury and ether
rivers are closed by ice six inches thick.
After four days' blockade by snow, a
train left Tracy, Minn., for the East en
Wednesday evening with three hundred
and eighty passengers. At hall past two
o'clock en Thursday morning, near New
Uliu, the axle tender broke, and all but
one of the cars were thrown from the track
and upset in the snow. Several of the ears
were wrecked aud a baggage car was par
tially destroyed by fire. Nine of the pas
sengers were seriously injured, but all
suffered greatly from the cold, the temper
ature being 20 degrees below zero. They
were transferred te New Uhn as seen as
possible.
It is feared that the schooner Mara, of
Machias, Maine, has been lest. Nothing
has been heard of her since the 22d of No
vember, when she left Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, for Cape Ann. The steam
ship Ontario, at Portland, Maine, reports
that, en the 8th hist., she passed a bark,
waterlogged and abandoned, with the
name, as near as could be made out, of
"Ella. On the 9th, seventj'-twe miles
west of Cape Sable, she passed au un
known vessel, apparently a schooner of
200 tens, bottom upwards. 'J !:.5 barken
tine Christabel, at St. Jehns. Newfound
laud, from Leghorn, lest e:.j man over
board, and had another seriously injured,
in a hurricane en the night of October
22d. The British bark Nuneaton, with a
cargo of deal?, was wrecked in St. Geerge's
Bay, Newfoundland, en t'.ie 22d ult., and
it is believed all hands weie drowned ex
cept the mate.
LATESr NEWS BY MAIL.
Car tain Timethy Desey, a noted Fenian
leader, has died iu Lawrence, .Mass., of
rheumatism of the heart r
The grand jury at Grecnsburg, Ind., has
indicted the superintendent of education
of Decatur county, all the township ap
praisers of the county, except two, and
several county officers for exacting fees net
allowed by law.
A tow of five canal beats, bound for
Havre de Grace and the Susquehanna,
canal, met heavy ice at the mouth of the
Sassafras river, Chesapeake bay, and
three of the beats, the Sallic, Constance
and Sephia, and Pennsylvania canal
company Ne. 201 were cut through and
sunk.
While Jeseph Skullien, a stage hand at
the Fifth Avenue theatre, New Yerk, was
imitating lightning flashes by throwing
small hand fnls et" magnesium upon a
spirit flame, a boxful of the powder ex
ploded tearing away three fingers of his
riirht hand and Incemtincr his hand in a
frightful manner. The explosion was no
ticed only by a few persons in the theatre
and did net cause any excitement or inter
ruption of the play.
A Tcrrilile laic.
Mary E. Hollingsworth, a young girl
who five months age was turned from Tier
home in White Mills, Pa., and who was
found in a bagnio in New Yerk, told a ter
lible story in court. She alleges that she
had been taken by a man called French
Liswis te the house of Annie Hauritz alias
Harrison, who paid him five dollersTor
her. She had been kept a prisoner in this
house for five months. Annie Hauritz wa
arrested en a warrant issued by Justice
Bixby aud committed te await the action
of the grand jury. The girl is in the house
of detention as a witness.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
STfcRN UERG-FBITCH-1VILHEM J.
The Great Trie at Fulton Opera Beat Last
Evening.
Manager Mishlers ceuntenance were
a somewhat rueful expression as he steed
at the deer of Fulton opera house last
evening and detached the coupons from
the tickets of the slowly-arriving people
as they passed iu. Our citizens in general
and professed levers of music in particu
lar have, during the present season, been
strangely delinquent in their patronage of
the first-class entertainments of this char
acter, and te attribute the scant atten
dance at the Sterubcrg-Fritch-Wilhemj
concert last evening te any ether cause
than a manifest wautef appreciation upon
the part of the people would be directly
in the face of au almost similar
experience only two weeks back, when
that gifted organization, the Mendelssohn
Quintet were called upon te face the same
trying ordeal of a "beggarly array of
empty benches." The audience last even
ing was a slight improvement upon the lat
ter occasion, however. The parquet-circle
was mero than half filled, a few living
forms redeemed the desolation of the par
quet, and a score or two of people were in
the gallery.
The first number en the pregramme was
Liszt's Cencertstueck by Ceustantin Stern
berg, the young Russian pianist, which
was in every detail a magnificent perform
ance. 31. Sternberg's method of execu
tion is at ence brilliant and accurate. He
combines with a perfect mastery of the
technique of his instrument, the secret
of diffusing through his work a spirit
which carries the sense of the auditor along
with it aud excites the most profound ad
miration. The manifold beauties of this
intricate work of the great composer were
developed iu all their detail, and the per
former retired amid a burst of apprecia
tive applause. Miss Fritch, who came
next en the pregramme, achieved au in
stantaneeus success. I lie selection was
Balfe's pretty composition, "Sweetheait,"
and Miss Flitch's rendition of the song
aroused au enthusiastic storm of favor that
was net surpassed when subsequently the
great violinist himself appeared. The lady
has a soprano voice that combines with its
bell-like sweetness and purity, a volume
of power and width of range that at ence
convey the impression of unsounded pos
sibilities, bhe renders the high notes
without effort and in perfect tunc,
while her gradual descent te the lower
register does net show a flaw in the tex
ture. 3Iiss Fritch joins te these virtues
a clear enunciation of the words and sings
with marked spirit and animation. The
audience refused te be satisfied with her
simple bow of acknowledgment, and Miss
Fritch accommodated the imperative de
mand for " mere " by a geed-humored
sailor ballad that enhanced the effect et
her previous performance. The appearance
of Wilhclmi was the signal for a burst of
admiration which subsided with the first
touch of his magic bow. The theme was
3re:ide!sshn's Second Concerto the
andante aud finale and during its execu
tion the audiencj sat in mute rapture.
Wilhelmj's playing is a revelation.
There is a marvelous beauty in every tone
produced by his bow, and the poetry of
sweet sound could hnu no higher ldcauza
tien than in the performances ei this wen
derail musician. Grasping the composer's
conception he reproduces it with au accur
acy born of the confidence he feels in the
possibilities et las art. 1 here is a strength
aud dash in the touch of his bow which de
net conceal the perfect finish of every note.
Hcrr Wilhclmj's second performance was
Ferd Laub's Pelenaise de Concert, and in
this composition no less than in the former
did the artist make ins power
felt; and when the audience insist
ed en again hearing him, he played
"Down upon the Suwance River" in a
manner that was wonderfully sympathetic
and marked by a genuine feeling that by
some strange influence at once communi
cated itself te the audience. 31. Stern
berg's second performance comprised a
fugue in G. miner by Rheinberger;
a gavotte his own composition, Nightin
gale (Russian song) transcribed Liszt ;
and an impromptu by Rheinberger (The
Hunt), all of which were marked by the
same artistic beauty that distinguished
his previous work. 31. Sternberg ac
knowledged the hearty encore tendered
him by a renewed performance. 3Iiss
Fritch's rendition of "The Carnival of Ve-
nice,"with variations, was a great treat and
strengthened her in the geed graces of the
audience, and the last number en the pro pre
gramme was au "Ave 3Iaria" (Bach
Gounod) in which 3Iiss Fritch, Ilerr Wil
hclmi and M. Sternberg united their
efforts and which constituted a fitting
climax te such a grand entertainment.
The accompaniments by 3Ir. 3Iax Vegrich
were in keeping with the general character
of the concert.
Klcctiens at tlic College.
At elections held this morning by the
literary societies of Franklin and 3Iar
shall college, the following gentlemen
were elected as speakers for the coining
anniversaries :
The Diagnethian society selected for
their orators : Salutatorian, R. P. Cobb,
Lancaster, Pa. ; Annivcrsarian, F. E.
Buchcr, Sunbury, Pa. ; Eulogist, W. J.
Jehnsen, Lancaster, Pa. ; Orators, Lewis
Rcitcr, Kittanning, Pa. ; A. P. Shirk, Lan
caster, Pa.; 11. S. Bemberger, Booncs Beoncs Boencs
boro, 31(1. ; O. R. Snyder, Dclment, Pa.
The Gecthcans filled their pregramme
with the following speakers: Gecthcan
Orator, C. B. Heller, Danville, Pa. ; Peet,
W. E. Hey, 3Iifilinsburg, Pa. ; First Ora
tor, W. II. Bridenbaugh, 3Iartinsbnrg,
Pa. ; Eulogist, A. D. Elliet, Yerk, Pa. ;
Second Orator, E. L. Kemp, Berlin, Pa. ;
Third Orator, 31erris Rebcr, Reading, Pa. ;
Salutatorian, W. H. Ranch, Harris burg,
Pa.
Marietta News.
The townspceplo are waiting te see
what happens next te a three-year-old
child of Edward Stahl, who swallowed a
shawl piu three inches long with a glass
head.
Recently Mr. Isaiah .Miller had a large
carriage cover stolen, and en Tuesday
evening the houses of Messrs. William
Child and Tebiars Stchmau were entered
and 25 yards of carpet stolen from the
former and about 10 yards from the latter
house. The carpet was removed from the
floors in both houses, and in the former a
stove was lifted te get it. Dr. Henry S.
Trout, the same evening, lest a strip of
three yards of ingrain carpet which was
used en his perch during the summer.
The goods were found at the house of
Samuel Day.a guiltless and guileless color
ed man, where they had been left by Clara
smith, a young colored girl who has skip
ped the town.
The Annual Stall Count.
The annual count of mail matter, eiigi-
nating at the postelnce, in this city, for the
first seven days in December, 1880, is as
fellows :
Ne. letters in plain envelopes f(,2U7
Ne. letters in special request, stamped en
veloped printed by 1. U.D 1,017
Ne.Iettcrs in ordinary stamped envelopes 'J)V
Me. letters -with request or business cards
net printed by I. O. D -M"
Ne. of etlicial letters SOS
Ne. of postal cards 4,10
Ne. ei newspapers te .subscribers 40,91'j
Ne. of magizines and peredical.s te. sub
scriber: 'J.5SJ
Ne. et packages ei transient printed mat-
Ne. of pieces of ineiclnindi-,e 2SI
Total Ne. of pieces 72.231
Increase ever the first seven days in No
vember 1S79 (when it was taken last year)
of 21,192 pieces, divided as follews: Let
tcrs 1,700 ; newspapers and pcredicals 18,
348 ; transient printed matter 1,084.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
SKVTEXCE OP 1.EWW SOWERS FOB
Ml'KUEK.
He Gets 10 Ifeani for Killing Chriitlaa Her
ney. Allen Ceble Sentenced Other Baaln
Transacted.
Court met at 10 o'clock this morning
for the purpose of passing sentences and
hearing current business.
Immediately after the opening of court
District Attorney Eshleman asked that
sentenced be pronounced upon Lewis
Sewers, who killed Christian Hershey at
3Ieunt Jey en June 26, 1879, and Who
plead euilty te voluntary manslaughter.
J. Hay Brown, esq., counsel for the
prisoner, asked that be allowed te make
a statement in regard te hew the affair oc
curred. This was allowed by the court.
The prisoner stated that en the day of the
killing he had been te the brewery, where,
he had several drinks ; en his way home
he stepped iu at Brandt's mill, where
some men were engaged putting in come
boilers ; a heavy boiler was hanging op
and a number of men were working under
it ; while he was there Hersh
ey came in ; he was drunk and
wanted te take held of the lever; the
prisoner was afraid that he would kill the
men who were uuder the boiler and caught
held of Hershey and pulled him around ;
he fell out of the deer, and striking his
head en the railroad track, received fatal
injuries. He went te work the next morn
ing, net thinking that Hershey was seri
ously hurt. He was seen afterwards ar
rested. The prisoner stated that after he was
released upon bail he wcntte3Irs. Hershey
and apologized te her ; he also offered te
pay all the funeral expenses ; he told her
lie would de all he could for her during
his life ; 3Irs. Hershey afterwards told him
that the Greffs were net agreed te this.
The prisoner denied the truth of the state
ment of the witness named Swords, who
who swore that he had threatened te kill
Hershey.
After the statement of Sewers the court
proceeded te pronounce the sentence. The
court stated that they had heard the case
under a writ of habeas corpus, after which
they admitted him te bail, as they were
satisfied that that no case of murder in the
first degrce could be made, as no weapon
was shown te have been used nor was
there any premeditation apparent. The
prisoner plead guilty te voluntary man
slaughter at this court, and that plea was
accepted. The term of imprisonment fixed
by law for that and murder in the second
degree, for the first offense, is the same. A
number of witnesses were called te en
lighten the court ; when the pica was en
tered, the evidence was a little stronger
than at the hearing. The court thought
that this was a very heartless act, sefarfas
the testimony in regard te the prisoner's
conduct, before and after its com
mission, showed. It showed . that
he had intended te hurt Hershey.
After deliberation and consideration
the court thought that the sentence should
be pretty severe. They, therefore, sen
tenced the prisoner te pay a fine of 9100,
with costs of prosecution, and te undergo
au imprisonment in the Eastern peniten
tiary for the period often years.
The prisoner was given into the charge
of the sheriff, and was taken te the prison.
He will be removed thence te the peniten
iary. Sentence et Ceble.
Allen Ceble, of Elizabcthtewn, the
young man who plead guilty te five
charges of larceny from dillcrent parties,
was sentenced te undergo au imprison
ment of 9 months and 25 days,
Opinions Delivered.
An opinion iu the following case was
delivered by Judge Livingston, Antheny
Wade's, deceased, estate. Rule te show
cause why the decree of confirmation of
the guardian should net be opened, re
viewed", reversed and set aside. Rule
made absolute. The account was report
ed back te the examiner te be reversed
and restated, and te file a supplementary
account.
Judge Patterson delivered the following
opinions :
Jehn D. Wilsen deceased's estate. Rule
te show cause why attachment should net
issue against the executer for payment te
the guardian of Rachel J. Wilsen of
money due her under the will of the de
ceased. Rule made absolute.
Watsen planing mill company vs. James
15. aud Rebecca Hendersen. Rule te
show cause why amendment te mechanics
lien should net lie struck oil. Rule dis
charged. KuItH fur New Trlul.1.
Rules for new trials were granted in the
following cases in common pleas court :
Henry Weiss vs. Philip Bernard, Themas
D. Kelly vs. Jas. Trimble & Ce., Eliza
beth Brown, administratrix of Daniel
Brown, dee'd, vs. Levi Scnsenig.
In the case of C. C. Schnader, who was
convicted of selling liquor te miners, at
this week's court, the rule for a new trial
was refused.
Granted ,a License.
Samuel Landers, of this city, was
granted a peddler's license.
Eatuis llense License Cirauted.
An eating house license was granted te
Frank Brua, of Strasburg. This case has
been before the court since April and has
been argued by both sides several time?.
n;eztx 1VATEK vivtn
Treublewlth Hydrants and Surrlcen Jtlalns
Sonic Keinedics Suggested.
Frem all parts of the city come com
plaints of frozen and bursting hydrants
and supply mains, and the festive.plumber
and the city water official have their hands
full, while net a few water-renters have
their cellars full of water. Last night
Superintendent Kitch and a number of his
men were en duty all night closing up the
leaks, and te day they arc still at it, while
every plumber iu town is ever-run with
orders. Following arc a few of the leaks
reported.
II. E. Slaymakcr, Duke aud Chestnut,
service pipe burst, and cellar flooded ; Al.
Fulmar's saloon, Centre Square, ditto;
Alderman Spurrier's hydrant frozen ;
Capt. Phil. Sprccher's ditto ; Jehn Brown.
West King street, service pipe broken;
Chas. Knapp's hydrant burst ; C. Hitler's,
Plum street, ditto ; 3Ir. Cress, West King,
near 3Iary, service pipe burst ; 3Ir. Hos Hes
tctter, West Chestnut street, ditto.
The reason given for nearly all these
bursts is "bail plumbing." and the suffer
eis want te knew whether there is no
effectual preventive of the annually re
curring annoyances from broken pipes.
Probably all, or nearly all, of them could
he avoided if the service pipes were of
better quality, laid somewhat deeper in
the ground se as te avoid the frost, and a
little mere care taken by the plumber in
making the joints and ether attach
ments. Pipes above the ground should
be enclosed iu wooden boxes and
packed with saw-dust or cork shav
ings, or better still with asbestos.
Out-deer hydrants should be covered with
straw or old carpet. A paper " toot"
made out of old newspapers, and large
enough te cover the entire hydrant and
reach te the ground, will prevent a hy
drant from freezing even when the mer
cury is at zero. This is a preventive with
in the reach of all. Seme people prevent
their hydrants freezing by permitting them
te run a little during very cold weather.
This may de where the hydrant wastes
into a sewer, but should never .be done
where there is a surface drainage as it
tends te clog the gutters ; besides it is n
violation of law te allow the water te
waste.
Complaint is made that the school chil
dren sometimes allow the hydrants at the
public schools te flew for au hour or mere